{"id":2482,"date":"2007-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercator.nfdtesting.uk\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/2007\/04\/15\/vinashin-to-build-passenger-ships\/"},"modified":"2007-04-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T23:00:00","slug":"vinashin-to-build-passenger-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/news\/general-news\/vinashin-to-build-passenger-ships\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinashin to build passenger ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam?s Prime Minister, Nguyen Tan Dung, gave the nod Vinashin to build six high-speed passenger ships to operate on the north-south sea route.<\/p>\n<p>The 160m-long ships, to be fitted with 60,000kW engines, are estimated to cost between US$1.5-2 billion in total. Each passenger vessel will be able to carry 2,000 passengers and reach a top speed of 29knots. The first vessel will be built abroad while the other five will be built in Vietnam according to local reports.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, travellers travel by train or airplane between the capital Hanoi in the north and southern Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam&#8217;s commercial centre, while high-speed boats are only used for short trips in each of the regions.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam?s Prime Minister, Nguyen Tan Dung, gave the nod Vinashin to build six high-speed passenger ships to operate on the north-south sea route. The 160m-long ships, to be fitted with 60,000kW engines, are estimated to cost between US$1.5-2 billion in total. Each passenger vessel will be able to carry 2,000 passengers and reach a top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}